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Good Thursday Morning Everybody,
It's a warm, sunny spring day here in Southern Ontario and it seems to be that way in most of Canada. It just makes you want to play when it gets like this. Well, Thanks for dropping in to our site. Please check out your favourite strings for your instruments - guitar, bass, mandolin, violin or any other kind you may be interested in. We're here to help and we'll get them out as fast and as inexpensively as possible. Dean Markley, DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more. Other than that, enjoy your Wednesday everyone and here's the news of the day. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1883 - Leo Delibes' opera "Lakma" premieres in Paris
1963 - George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1994 - Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
Births in Music
1935 - Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow Ky, singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, England, guitarist (Rainbow, Deep Purple)
1676 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
1718 - Emanuele Barbella, composer
1723 - John Wainwright, composer
1782 - Carlo Coccia, composer
1819 - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
1842 - Sven August Korling, composer
1843 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
1852 - Henrique Oswald, composer
1857 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
1873 - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
1895 - Wiktor Labunski, composer
1906 - Hunter Johnson, composer
1910 - Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
1916 - Denis ApIvor, composer
1916 - Emerson Buckley, composer
1920 - Eduardo Maturana, composer
1922 - David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer
1924 - Shorty Rogers, [Milton M Rajonsky], American jazz musician/composer
1925 - Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin')
1925 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
1926 - Jan Carl Christian Maegaard, composer
1933 - Buddy Knox, Happy Tx, rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey)
1933 - Morton Subotnick, LA Calif, composer (Wild Bull)
1939 - Jennifer Fowler, composer
1946 - Patrick Fairley, guitarist (Marmalade-Oh La Di Oh La Do)
1948 - Larry Ferguson, Nassau, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 - Ty Grimes, rocker (Capt Beefheart Band Drums)
1951 - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician
1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
1952 - Kenny Aaronson, rocker
1957 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
1960 - Brian Forster, rocker (Partridge Family Drums)
1967 - Barret Martin, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1969 - Martyn LeNoble, Dutch musician
1970 - Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer
1970 - Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
1973 - David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
1974 - Shawntae Harris (aka Da Brat), American rapper
1975 - Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
1980 - Win Butler, American/Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1984 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (d. 2004)
Deaths in Music
1655 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39
1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
1813 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34
1843 - Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
1888 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63
1983 - Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at 42
1983 - Pete Farndon, England, rock bassist (Pretenders)
1985 - Reginald Beane, pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1987 - Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79
1988 - Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Johan Franco, composer, dies at 79
1990 - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1992 - Sammy Price, US boogie-woogie pianist
1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
1995 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist, dies at 75
1996 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
2007 - Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
Todays News
- Passenger trains resume between Dhaka in Bangladesh and the Indian city of Calcutta, after 43 years. (BBC News)
- Trevor Immelman of South Africa wins the 2008 Masters Tournament.
- Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, calls for immediate action to tackle rising food prices which have caused rioting in several countries. (Associated Press)
- Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Hajredin Kuçi announces that the newly independent country plans to open 20 embassies abroad. (PressTV)
- The Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd announces that current Governor of Queensland Quentin Bryce will become Australia's next Governor-General. Ms Bryce will be the first woman appointed to the role. (News.com.au)
- Thousands of pro-China demonstrators gathered in front of the Canadian Parliament Building in Ottawa to show their support for the Chinese government and 2008 Beijing Olympics. (CTV)
- The National Assembly of Haiti removes the Prime Minister of Haiti Jacques-Edouard Alexis following a week of food riots in which six deaths had occurred. (Los Angeles Times)
News on this Day in History
1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1699 - Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1775 - The first abolition society in North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now National Association of Broadcasters) convention in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 - At the U.S. Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Academy Award for Best Actress.
2003 - The Human Genome Project is successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
Holidays and Observances
- Astrological New Year (sidreal equinox)- celebrated as new year in South and South East Asia. Namely by Bengalis, Burmese, Cambodians, Laotians, Malayalees, Punjabis, Sinhalese, Tamils and Thais.
- N'Ko Alphabet Day - the anniversary of the day the N'Ko alphabet was completed in 1949.
- Black Day - Informal celebration day for single people in South Korea.
- Youth Day in Angola.
- Mologa Day in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
- Day of the Georgian language in Georgia.
- Ambedkar Jayanti in India.
- Sri Rama Navami in India.
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